reflex action : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: reflex action	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for reflex action
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflex action n an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus Synonym(s): reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks), a. [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere: cf. F. r[82]flexe. See {Reflect}.] 1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return. 3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness. {Reflex action} (Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells. {Reflex nerve} (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See {Exito-motory}.